Natalia Aguilar Vasquez

Natalia Aguilar Vásquez is an interdisciplinary scholar of contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts. Her research and teaching explore questions of social and postcolonial justice, gender-based violence, infrastructures of care, and community building in times of conflict, with a particular focus on Colombian and Mexican cultural production.

She is currently working on her first book, Housing Futures: Colombian Narratives of Domestic Reclamation, which examines how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Colombian literature represents uninhabitable housing, the struggle to inhabit domestic space amid sociopolitical violence and economic instability, and the creative strategies that emerge to sustain a sense of home.

At Emerson College, she teaches courses on modern and contemporary Latin American literature, film, and visual arts, with attention to themes such as the representation of violence, cultural memory, commemoration, and forms of labor both within and beyond the domestic sphere. Her work has appeared in Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human (University Press of Florida, 2020), Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Hispanic Review.